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Offer to lease catoecic land at Tebtynis for four years TM 25871Tebtynis (Arsinoites)2. Hälfte I

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Offer to lease land, addressed by Mesoeris of Tebtynis, a 'Persian of the epigone', to Herakleides. He proposes to rent about 13 arouras of catoecic land near Tebtynis for four years, paying wheat rent for the first two years and setting crops and payments for the later years. Written at Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome in the second half of the 1st century AD.

In English machine translation

To Herakleides […] from Mesoeris […] from the village of Tebtynis, Persian of the epigone. I wish to lease from you for four years from the […] year […] of the lord, from the kleroi belonging to you around the aforesaid village of Tebtynis, in two […] of a catoecic kleros, 13 arouras or however many they may be […], of which there are […] arouras […] 3 arouras, the first and second year of the lease for sowing wheat, at a rent for the two-year period, each year, together with the seed I shall receive, 13 artabas of wheat, in total each year 69 artabas of wheat […] by the measure of your own choinix; and the third year […] with whatever crops I, Mesoeris, choose, except safflower; and the fourth year, which is the last year […] […] earlier […] […] and […] […] of silver, 100 drachmas […] of customary gifts for the four-year period each year […], all being free from deductions and from risk […] […]

Much of the text, including the rent figures, rests on restorations from standard lease formulas. 'Persian of the epigone' is a legal status label rather than an ethnic one.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Location de terres). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 2. Hälfte I · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

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